Further to the confirmation from Blizzard late last night that the Overwatch Summer Games would be returning with Lúcioball next week, we now have a new image of Sydney.

The Aussie city will become the setting for the games new map, and you can get a glimpse of it in the image below.

As a reminder, the Overwatch Summer Games return to PC, PS, and Xbox One on August 8 for just over two weeks on August 29th.

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OVERWATCH SUMMER GAMES 2017 RELEASE DATE UPDATE 2

Blizzard has confirmed the return of the Summer Games To Overwatch and it all kicks off starting next Tuesday, August 8th and will end on August 29th.

A new developer update has also been released with Jeff Kaplan, which you can watch below.

"The Summer Games return to PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on August 8! Join game director Jeff Kaplan as he discusses what's changed, what's the same, and what you can expect from this year’s event." reads the video description.

Lúcioball, the rocket league-esk football game returns alongside a new Sydney map and a few balance changes to the overall game.

There will also be new Summer Games skins available for 2017, plus last year's skins available once again but at reduced prices.

Overwatch fans are still waiting on Blizzard to pull the trigger and announce what they're fairly certain is already coming after the discovery of several files by a dataminer.

But in one of the weirdest and most confusing exchanges, we've seen the official PlayOverwatch Twitter account responded to one fans, basically asking them to announce Summer Games 2017.

"Any announcements you might have today? Maybe about a game mode or something?" asked @dzunepwnsipod

Responding, @PlayOverwatch said:

"If we do, we won't announce the announcement before we announce it. Just stay tuned and if/when we do, we'll post it here."

As confusing as that might be, it's unlikely we're getting any announcement today, but a lot of fans on the Overwatch Reddit page believe we could get some sort of tease Thursday, with the event starting next week.

Overwatch Summer Games looks to be making a comeback in 2017 with a new Reddit post by dataminer Yernemm, uncovering “40+ new items” coming to the game which seems to confirm the return for Blizzard's sporty seasonal event.

The return of the Summer Games has been bandied about for the last few months, but it's only now that hard evidence has been found which seems to corroborate that Blizzard will indeed return.

Initially, this starts with Redditor Ekultron finding several achievements which indicated a return for Lucioball, and it's plain as day that these are new achievements and not old ones because no-one has earned them yet.

These achievements were added during the recent Doomfist update (patch 1.13), and while we don't know for certain what exactly the Summer Games will entail for 2017, we're confident that Lucioball will be involved because these achievements seem to highly strongly suggest a return.

For those who don't remember, Lucioball was a special 3v3 game mode, where players needed to melee a large football into a net.

So it's basically Overwatch given the Rocket League treatment.

However, this isn't the only evidence found which shows the Overwatch Summer Games 2017 is set to be confirmed any day now.

As mentioned, dataminer Yernemm found “40+ new items” and key to this is the line:

“The Summer Games return for more fun in the sun! Your favorites from last year are back alongside 40+ new items!”

Overwatch Summer Games 2016 Screenshots

The Summer Games were a seasonal event in Overwatch that started on August 2, 2016, and ended on August 22, 2016. The event included a new game mode, Lúcioball and a new map, Estádio das Rãs.

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As well as the main line there's plenty more strings which also indicate a return for Lucioball, such as “Score goals, make saves, and lead your team to victory!” as well as another that's simply “Soccer save”.

Another string, which reads “Back to the Beach”, which pcgamesn suggests could hint towards some sort of seaside theme for this year cosmetics, but again, that's not confirmed by any means and until an official announcement is made it's anyone's guess what it actually refers to

As for when this event could be released, there's nothing concrete from the Blizzard or Overwatch team just yet, but there's a chance the Summer Games could start as early as tomorrow, as a string contained in the datamine reads: “August 2 - August 23.”

"It’s more likely, however, that this is simply the leftover dates from last year, as they match up exactly with the Olympics-themed Summer Games of 2016." claims PCGamesN.

As for new Skins, Daily Express has suggested that "this could be the first event where we see old Overwatch skins being re-released by Blizzard."

Although, again we can't see Blizzard passing on the chance for new skins and more excuses for players to purchase loot boxes.

As Express also suggests:

"In the past, events have been released closely with new hero launches, so it stands to reason that Doomfist’s release shouldn’t slow much down."

Blizzard added new character Doomfist to the game last week and since dataminers had discovered that more skins for the character were already on the way.

According to reports, Doomfist will be getting 4 Cosmetic Items during the Summer Games event.

“Based on previous event cosmetics, 4 seems to be a fair amount and usually means an event-specific skin is on the way for said hero,” A reddit post from an Overwatch dataminer explains.

“It is possible that, because he's a new release they'll focus more on the sprays, emotes, etc. Especially if he launches with 4 or 5 amazing legendaries.”

It was also found in the datamine from Yernemm that there are significant references to Overwatch's long-awaited report system.

You can read Yernemm’s Reddit post right here and his findings here for a few extra details.